Friday, July 17, 2015

Border beauty, shovel art and not your typical Greek salad

- I am revisiting the mountains and the gardens beside the river this morning. The neighbors next door grew weary of all the rain during July 4th weekend and packed up and left on Saturday. So that Sunday morning, in a break from rain, I walked the garden. It borders my sister and brother-in-law's property, so I didn't feel as I was intruding too much. Love the happy profusion of plants and flowers along this border.

- And the shovel art! Click to enlarge to see the insect-like creature someone made that started with a shovel. The neighbor is a master gardener and as much as we were unhappy that someone built a house on that corner property, we do love seeing all the flowers.

- I am certain I've posted this salad before, but here it is again, before being topped with feta cheese. It's Greek Salad with Lemon and Oregano from the Smitten Kitchen. I adore making this salad and will make it again this weekend - I bought the stuff last night. And I used Vidalia onion instead of purple onion, because I like it. If you click on the red Smitten Kitchen link above, you can read her happy news. It made me smile this morning.

That shovel insect is wonderful! As for the salad I like it as is without the feta. So colorful and healthy, which is what attracts me these days. My daughter has me on her non GMO, low-dairy diet, almost-vegetarian diet. It's helping (when I don't cheat).

Hi Lynn - what a great opportunity and how lovely to see the spade 'scarab' beetle and the little floppy ... lovely art work. Gorgeous salad too ... I can't eat onion .. so that gets left out, but all things of salad nature get made up - I have one every day for lunch. I saw some beets and boiled them up - nothing like fresh beetroot ... last one for lunch today.

LOVE all those flowers next door....And the Shovel is delightful! Love that little Bunny, too......Not big on salads, I'm sorry to say....I used to be, and I;m not sure what turned me off of them....That one is so very colorful. Have a great weekend!

I am taking a similar salad to our church fellowship dinner today. Mine has regular onions and apple cider vinegar. Will be my first time back to church in months. My son is here to take me since I cannot drive yet.

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I love looking for goodness, beauty, quirkiness and the unexpected in life.
Favorite quote: from author Barbara Pym’s “Less Than Angels” (1955), the protagonist, Catherine Oliphant, reflects that “the smallest things were often so much bigger than the great things … the trivial pleasures like cooking, one’s home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.”